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There were already more than 50 mostly hidden infections a day in the U.S. by mid-February, suggesting that community transmission probably began in January, according to estimates from Northeastern University.

More than a third of American respondents told Fairleigh Dickinson University pollsters in late May they would not get vaccinated, and a poll from researchers at Harvard, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University that was conducted in mid-July found Republicans were least likely to express interest in getting a vaccine. 

Ammons is not alone. Cornfield pointed to a July report by a consortium of professors from Harvard, Rutgers, Northwestern and Northeastern universities.

In underground economies like the drug market, disruptions in the global supply chain can wreak havoc for people in addiction, said Leo Beletsky, the director of the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University.

“Think of that as about the pace of the walk to school in the morning,” says Charles Hillman, lead author of the study and associate director of the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University has gone all in on in-person instruction. Long famed for promoting work experience, it is now trumpeting another specialty: an on-campus lab to process 5,000 Covid-19 tests a day.

“You have to wonder about the police departments that didn’t participate,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. “Maybe they were embarrassed about their data.”

According to a recent survey from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern, only 66 percent of people say they plan to get vaccinated once it’s available. WGBH News Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University, about the survey and what it could mean […]

A similar survey, conducted by researchers at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University, found 66 percent of Americans saying that would be somewhat or extremely likely to vaccinate themselves. This poll surveyed 19,058 U.S. adults from July 10 to July 26.

“I’ll admit that I’m skeptical of some of the conclusions,” said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University.

“You can’t expect the public to go through all the science, so you rely on people of authority, someone whom you trust, to parse that for you,” says Aleszu Bajak, a science and data journalist who teaches at Northeastern University in Boston. “But now you have more than just the scientists in their ivory tower throwing out […]